WestEddy

I would not find it questionable and disappointing if Canario isn't on our team in a week. I'd imagine that the priorities in the first months of the season are: 1) Get Vargas, Sosa and Lee PAs and innings. You need to see if they're major leaguers going forward. 2) Put your four young starting pitchers (and inexperienced bullpen) in the best position to succeed. A big step towards that goal is making sure you have better fielders at every possible position. 3) Keep Robert, Benintendi and Vaughn fresh and healthy by rotating them through the DH slot. If they produce, you can trade them. 4) Give Will Venable a team that he can actually "manage" and try to win games with. Venable is also being evaluated as a part of the equation going forward. Why give him a s%*#-show to juggle in his first year? One obstacle to all those is parking a guy in LF or DH and eliminating the rotation Venable has planned for the position. The main problem I have with the constant stoking of the "Getz is clueless" narrative is that he actually put this roster together with a plan and it would be silly to jettison that plan one game into the season to take a flier on a guy who hasn't collected the most glowing scouting reports. Cutting Jankowski, Maton, Slater, Taylor, Vaughn, Rojas all become flippant options if we just disregard the fact that they actually have to play the games, don't want to exceed the worst loss record again, and want to develop a positive clubhouse environment going forward. Canario is an interesting player. We could have easily cut Colas and grabbed this guy up when the Cubs DFAed him, and then took a good, long look at him. Either their own scouts said the same thing many of the more credible reports we have access to said, or they just didn't know enough about him then. I don't think anything's changed in the last 6 weeks.

That's a big reason I don't think anybody should have been expecting any kind of return on Kopech. The dude literally only put his coaches' suggestions into practice the week before he was traded.

nope.

Yeah, he made the plays hit to him. There was a game in ST where he looked absolutely terrible. Maybe he had bad clams that morning.

Vargas 2-4 w/2 ribs. That Fedde trade's looking better by the day.

14 players on this opening day roster have less than 2 years' service time. Do players only develop when their team loses?

Paul DeJong, 4 PAs, 4 Ks.

You've got to beat those teams, also.

There's a quality start. Burke looks real.

Colas isn't a major league outfielder. I would have ridden with Fletcher over Janky.

Probably the two easiest to sneak through waivers today.

just delete this.

Here's your thread:

I have no idea who his source is, or if he has sources. Nobody's talked about Colas being traded, or anybody else in baseball having any interest in Colas, so I thought it interesting to share. I gather he has, or thinks he has a source on the Sox who has gossiped info about inquiries to him.

Carella's really not an "impact" arm. That might just be a guy who slips through waivers over opening day because teams have too much else going on to take up a 40-man spot for the entire year (and off-season).

DFAing is also a way to force the issue with interested teams that are dithering. I only posted because it's an idea nobody has really mentioned that I always thought would be a thing, trading Colas.

He indicates he was told a list of clubs, rather than saying he heard from multiple clubs about their interest.

Colas had two high-profile fielding mishaps this spring that I feel are probably indicative of him not applying the coaching he's received. Getting hit in the face with the flyball in LF happened to somebody else the very next day, but there was a play in RF where he rushed a single, prepping to throw out somebody he had no chance on, and let the ball get by him. He doesn't seem to have a position, and Vargas looking like a viable pro bat has most likely closed off being 1B depth on the big club. I don't think his mental problems are that he's a lunkhead as much as being uncoachable.

For cash considerations, at the very least.

And perhaps the Cubs preferred trading him to the Mets instead of cross town.

FanGraphs just wrote up the Rockies' system: Colorado Rockies Top 43 Prospects | FanGraphs Baseball 32. Greg Jones, CF Video Drafted: 1st Round, 2019 from UNC Wilmington (TBR) Age 26.9 Height 6′ 2″ Weight 175 Bat / Thr S / R FV 35+ Tool Grades (Present/Future) Hit Raw Power Game Power Run Fielding Throw 20/20 55/55 30/30 80/80 55/70 50 Jones is among the most fun to watch players in the minors. He’s a top-of-the-scale athlete who plays spectacular (albeit inconsistent) defense at several positions, and he has incredible speed and above-average raw power. Now 26, Jones still hasn’t made progress in a few key areas, namely his infield hands and arm accuracy, and his contact hitting. He hit .267/.344/.453 in his first season in the Rockies system, but K’d at a 35.5% clip, which is actually a good bit better than his 2023 rate (38.8%). Jones swings pretty hard and can tag a fastball, but he’s hapless against secondary stuff; this is the kind of guy who’d hit .180 or so with regular reps. At a certain point it was feasible that a young, switch-hitting Jones would make meaningful progress in this area, but that hasn’t happened. Instead, it’s via his speed and defense that Jones remains relevant. Though he struggled with flubs and underthrows, Jones was developed solely at shortstop for his first four years in the Rays system and wasn’t given run in center field until 2023. Traded to Colorado for Joe Rock that offseason, he’s now been exposed to a mix of CF/SS/2B and sometimes plays all three like your friendly neighborhood Spiderman, with highlight-reel acrobatics. Too often, though, Jones is flub-prone on the infield, and his throwing is much, much better from the outfield, where his relative inexperience still sometimes shows. He’s below average at short and has played just eight games at second, but Jones is such an unbelievable athlete that I’m still betting he becomes a very special defensive center fielder in his late 20s. He still has value as a late-game runner and defender.

The 1990 draft was also insane. Fernandez, Bob Wickman (2), James Baldwin (4), Ray Durham (5), and Jason Bere (36).

Hey, what do you think of Makarewicz, Miller-Green and TJ McCants? Are they all just depth, or any hitters without real positions? McCants seems to have a 4th OF ceiling.